I thought I understood it
That I could grasp it (*3)
But I didn't
Not really
I knew the smudgeness of it (*4)
The pink-slippered-all-containered-semi-precious eagerness of it
I didn't realize it would sometimes be more than whole
The wholeness was a rather luxurious idea
Because it's the halves that halve you in half
Didn't know
Don't know about the in between bits
The gore-y bits of you (*5)
And gore-y bits of me
*3. grasp = memegang erat-erat
*4. smudgeness = noda kotoran
*5 The gore-y bits of you, And gore-y bits of me = sedikit lukamu, and sedikit lukaku
I carry you in my heart
(E.E. Cummings, dari film In Her Shoes)
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